Monday, October 21, 2013

PLUS: First, Get Your Staff Behind Your Rebrand; This 28-Year-Old Built A $3 Million Business In 10 Months; Ketchuppp Is An App That Wants To Help Friends Catch Up In Person Learn to Master Time, Reduce Stress and Find Happiness; LinkedIn Lists “World’s Most In Demand Employers and Should Your Company Be on Google+?

Are you spend­ing too much time look­ing at what your friends are post­ing on Insta­gram and Face­book and not enough time hang­ing out with each other IRL? The founders of Ketchuppp think so. And their answer to this prob­lem is,...

At the start of 2012, 27-year-old Arvin Lal was pump­ing iron with his friend, Michael Dimar­co, a chi­ro­prac­tor who mixed his own herbal sup­ple­ments. The friend gave him a weight loss rem­e­dy."I tried it and I lost 8 pounds in...

Source: ThinkstockLinkedIn (NYSE: LNDK) did what few firms have been able to, at least with any believability. It has ranked the most “in demand employers”. based on a huge sample size. The research comes from “billions of...

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I couldn't believe it. On a Skype video interview, a candidate who was great on paper moistened his lips with a beer before starting to talk. He took several more sips throughout the then-shortened interview.

When it comes to lying and the job search, data shows that many people don’t believe “honesty is the best policy.” Although a common practice by job seekers, the numbers don’t lie: -53 percent of resumes and job applications contain...

We don't know exactly when, but if there’s one universal truth, it’s that we will all at some stage run out of time. I believe that most of us need to stop and master happiness through time, so we can be fulfilled, productive...

Note: I rank this among my best articles. It captures the larger industry shift towards platforms. A variation of this article appeared as an op-ed on The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. This was co-authored with Geoffrey...

He wants a connection, an apology and some understanding. He wants to know why you made him feel stupid or ripped off or disrespected, and why it's not going to happen again. If you have a department that sends out...

Google's Hummingbird release has radically changed the search playing field. Skyword CEO Tom Gerace shares what marketers need to know about the new algorithm. Following these simple steps will help ensure that your...